Joe Capote News Today

Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Substituting tonight, kate snow. Good evening. The news came as such a shock today. Philip seymour hoffman, the enormously talented oscarwinning actor who made his name in hollywood and in the theater, was found dead in his new york apartment at the age of just 46. Hoffman had also been very public about his struggle with heroin. We knew he had overcome an addiction years ago and spent more than 20 years counseling others not to pick up the ha...

Good evening and thanks for joining us here on a sunday night. We do begin with the tragic death of Philip Seymour hoffman, a performer who was known for his extraordinary range. He was also known for his honesty about the struggles he faced away from the public eye. Tonight, investigators at his home after what they believe was a heroin overdose. Just last november, seen smiling at the opening of the second hunger games movie. He was just preparing now to film the third installment. And just tw...

'Feud: Capote vs.

How does ‘Capote vs. the Swans’s version of New York high society and its power players align with the real story? Let’s fact-check this notorious ‘Feud.’

‘Unanswered Prayers,’ on the death and life of Truman Capote, first appeared in the February 9, 1976, issue of New York Magazine. ‘My life is so strange — it’s not like anybody else’s,’ Capote said.

Author Truman Capote wrote the books ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and ‘In Cold Blood,’ a the trailblazing true crime account. Read about his relationships and more.

In “Deliberate Cruelty,” Roseanne Montillo delves into a grisly mystery involving one of the writer’s many nemeses.

Mick Jagger he described as moving ‘like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire’.  Even Elizabeth Taylor, whom he got to know well and had profiled for a magazine, describing her eyes as ‘so liquid with life’, was defined as having ‘an extraordinary inferiority complex, and it’s difficult to get through’. But then Truman Capote was not for nothing hailed as one of the sharpest writers of the 20th Century.  His 1958 novella, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, was adapted into ...